
…, to simply build an endless amount of luxury units and call that an affordable housing “solution.” In fact, as it currently stands, only about 1/5 of apartments on the market are affordable for someone making San Francisco’s median income (which is still a whopping $71,000 for a single person). So, it’s important to always ask the question: whose needs does this development project serve? And if it doesn’t seem to meet the needs of everyday people who work and live in San Francisco, then it’s important to join community organizing efforts to push for more affordable housing and community benefits from that project.
…ally deserves to be in San Francisco, in this wildly popular, and therefore highly contested, city. (This while they fight efforts to demand more affordability from market-rate developers that would help more low-income folks stay in this city ASAP — the utopian vision doesn’t always meet the reality). And, as importantly, their assessment of the cause of the housing affordability crisis and the sol…